Impact of pitch angle fluctuations on airborne lidar forward sensing along the flight direction

Gurvich, Alexander Sergeevich; Kulikov, Victor Alexeevich

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3851-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3851-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3851-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 10

Research article

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19 Oct 2017

Research article |

| 19 Oct 2017

Impact of pitch angle fluctuations on airborne lidar forward sensing along the flight direction

Alexander Sergeevich Gurvich and Victor Alexeevich Kulikov

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Viktor Banakh, 28 Jun 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to the rewiever #1', Victor Kulikov, 02 Aug 2017
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to the rewiever #2', Victor Kulikov, 02 Aug 2017
SC1: 'Review', Patrick Vrancken, 04 Aug 2017
- SC2: 'additions', Patrick Vrancken, 04 Aug 2017
- AC3: 'Reply for the comment', Victor Kulikov, 02 Sep 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Victor Kulikov on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Sep 2017) by Vassilis Amiridis

AR by Victor Kulikov on behalf of the Authors (05 Sep 2017)

Short summary

The experimental and numerical simulation results of lidar sensing ahead of the airplane's flight direction were analyzed. Pitch angle fluctuations, even when compensated for within the error limits of a typical beam-steering system, can produce significant fluctuations in the backscattered signal. This effect appears in the presence of aerosol clusters with vertical size of about a few hundred meters. A simple criterion to distinguish these fluctuations from aerosol evolution is suggested.